Pie Chart of all tweets about COVID-19


Background

The data was collected from Twitter’s API using the “rtweet” package in R. A total of 15 000 tweets was collected, 300 tweets from each of the 5 source. The tweets was the filtered based on their content. Tweets that related to Covid-19 or Vacination was included in the final data set. After filtering, 11 000 tweets remained.

Source: https://rtweet.info/

Descriptions

Looking at the pie chart one can see that media houses Tweeted significantly more about Covid-19 than the Government. With SABC and News24 posting the most about Covid-19.

Histogram of Tweets


Background

Timeline of tweets


Background